Cotton production expected to be lower than last year
2025-03-25 12:04:48
Production of cotton is anticipated to be lower than it was last year.
Cotton production is expected to be 295 lakh bales in the current cotton season ending in September 2025, as against 325 lakh bales in the previous season.
A meeting of the Cotton Production and Consumption Committee held on Monday said that imports this season will be 25 lakh bales (16 lakh bales in 2023-2024) and exports will be 18 lakh bales. Cotton consumption by the domestic textile industry is expected to be 302 lakh bales, which will be about seven lakh bales less than the previous season.
Textile and apparel exports have picked up and hence the demand for yarn is high now. S.K. Sundararaman, president of the South India Mills Association, said the government should remove import duty on cotton so that textile mills can get adequate quantity of cotton between August and November this year.
